Forty Agency

Forty Agency

The thing that stands out to me most on the Forty Agency website is the copy. It’s clean, thorough and has a really strong personality too. I love the main navigation naming too with the sub titles/microcopy. Overall solid design too, nice fixed header...
Geckoboard

Geckoboard

Apparently dashboards are still a thing. When I figured out what this was I had a flashback to designing overly-detailed mockups of graphs and some sort of thing that looks like a speedometer that has no possibility of ever being made functional (but it would probably...
Summly

Summly

Summly has been in the news lately because the creator, Nick D’Aloisio, has just sold it for $30m to Yahoo. And he’s only 17. I haven’t used the app itself (it’s not available in the US), but it looks very cool and smart. The video is...
Kotaku

Kotaku

The new Kotaku site is part of a rollout of a new platform from Gawker. Other sites using the same platform so far include Jalopnik and Deadspin. It’s helpful that they’ve linked to a post about the new look, but it doesn’t give us much insight into...
Build

Build

I really dig this splash page for the Build Windows conference series. It’s simple and straight forward but there is also a little magic baked in with the mask like parallax design. We work on a lot of similar type work here at UMS for our conferences and this...